Hospital Hours

Mar Vista Animal Medical Center
is open 7 Days a Week.

 Monday through Friday:
8 am   to   6 pm

 Saturday and Sunday:
8 am   to   3 pm

Every Sunday from 9 to 11 am is reserved for our Low Cost Vaccination Clinic. If only one doctor is on duty, we will not accept regular office appointments Sundays between 9 and 11 am. Appointments may be scheduled and pets may be dropped off for baths or other procedures between 8 and 9 am Sunday mornings, and we will also see appointments as usual between 11 am and 3 pm Sundays. If two doctors are on duty, we will accept regular office appointments all day. Please call ahead.

If you want to have the doctor examine your pet as well as give your pet their vaccination shots, appointments and exams on Sundays (before 9 am or after 11 am) will also take advantage of the Vaccination Clinic prices as well.

IF YOU HAVE AN AFTER HOURS EMERGENCY

You may try calling us first. If a doctor is still in the facility (sometimes Dr. Brooks works late hours, as an owner sometimes does!) we may be able to take on an emergency after hours. There will be an “after hours” charge in addition to the treatment expenses, but that may still be less expensive for you than going to an emergency facility, and we may be closer. Depending on the necessary treatment and our available staff, however, we may still have to refer your pet to an emergency facility. (One other option: there are also two or three other veterinary hospitals in our immediate vicinity that may be open a few hours later than we are, and if they are still open you will not incur an emergency charge.)

The EMERGENCY FACILITY we normally refer our patients to is:

The Animal Emergency Facility
1736 Sepulveda Blvd.
(on Sepulveda, one-quarter block south of Santa Monica Blvd. on the east side of the street)

(310) 473-1561

If you are a patient of Mar Vista Animal Medical Center, they will fax over records of their findings and treatments to our hospital first thing in the morning. During normal business hours, they are the California Animal Hospital, and a patient that is hospitalized will normally have to be transported back to our hospital in the morning.